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Post by Non Alum Dave on Mar 26, 2023 9:41:28 GMT -5
Actually, meant Basketball Sub Division.
I blame Bob Chesney- he is in my head with "you can have it all" and "competing for a championship ".
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Post by timholycross on Mar 26, 2023 11:26:29 GMT -5
WRT to Gonzaga to the Big 12, it does make sense. Of course, it would have to be an all-sports move as basketball-only affiliates are not allowed per current NCAA bylaws. The Big 12 is quickly turning into a hoops-first conference with fringe P5 football. Kansas, Iowa State, KSU, Baylor, Houston, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Texas Tech, BYU...and potentially Gonzaga. AND I'm fairly certain they will at least try to court the Arizona schools. I'm sure U of A would love to be in that basketball conference. As far as travel for the Zags, Spokane isn't exactly convenient to anywhere. Aside from maybe Portland, all interscholastic travel in the WCC is likely by air for Gonzaga. And there are only maybe a handful of non-league DI opponents in the region that would be bus trips. So the travel situation really isn't that big a deal IMO. The Pac12, or whatever it will be called in a couple years, would seem to duplicate the road trips Gonzaga goes on now. Would think they'd be a better fit there. Only caveat is making sure that league doesn't have further defections.
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Post by bikeman on Mar 26, 2023 11:29:38 GMT -5
No thanks on the FCS basketball crap. If you’ve watched this tournament, you’ve seen why that should never happen. I’ll take a sweet 16 appearance over a D2 championship every time.
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Post by bikeman on Mar 26, 2023 11:31:32 GMT -5
Holy Cross has finally figured out that it doesn’t suck to be good at athletics and is doing something about it.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 26, 2023 12:36:29 GMT -5
WRT to Gonzaga to the Big 12, it does make sense. Of course, it would have to be an all-sports move as basketball-only affiliates are not allowed per current NCAA bylaws. The Big 12 is quickly turning into a hoops-first conference with fringe P5 football. Kansas, Iowa State, KSU, Baylor, Houston, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Texas Tech, BYU...and potentially Gonzaga. AND I'm fairly certain they will at least try to court the Arizona schools. I'm sure U of A would love to be in that basketball conference. As far as travel for the Zags, Spokane isn't exactly convenient to anywhere. Aside from maybe Portland, all interscholastic travel in the WCC is likely by air for Gonzaga. And there are only maybe a handful of non-league DI opponents in the region that would be bus trips. So the travel situation really isn't that big a deal IMO. All current and future full members of the B-12 play football. Gonzaga, if it joined, would have the smallest enrollment. TCU 's enrollment is about 60 percent bigger. None of the others has an enrollment under 20,000. The WCC is almost the polar opposite of the Big 12. Gonzaga is currently a big fish in a hoops-centric conference; it would be a small fish in a football centric conference.. As the Big 12 doesn't have men's soccer as a conference sport (football substitutes as the fall semester sport), Gonzaga would need to become an affiliate member of another conference for men's soccer.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 26, 2023 13:21:10 GMT -5
Danny Hurley has been relatively in control as things have gone swimmingly. What I am curious to see is if/when he is challenged in Houston, will he be able to exhibit the control he was unable to do during their Big East losses ?
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Post by res on Mar 26, 2023 14:17:28 GMT -5
Danny Hurley has been relatively in control as things have gone swimmingly. What I am curious to see is if/when he is challenged in Houston, will he be able to exhibit the control he was unable to do during their Big East losses ? No.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 26, 2023 14:27:54 GMT -5
Danny Hurley has been relatively in control as things have gone swimmingly. What I am curious to see is if/when he is challenged in Houston, will he be able to exhibit the control he was unable to do during their Big East losses ? No. That would be my bet also. He has been like that in all his coaching stops.
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Post by res on Mar 26, 2023 15:37:39 GMT -5
That would be my bet also. He has been like that in all his coaching stops. One of the more prolific Bona posters has always referred to him as "The Pageant Mom".
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Post by HC92 on Mar 26, 2023 15:45:41 GMT -5
Calhoun was pretty emotional. Built a program from almost nothing and won 3 national titles. Don’t have to like him or Hurley but they know how to win college basketball games.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Mar 26, 2023 15:54:11 GMT -5
San Diego State v. FDU in the Final Four. Wow! SDSU player was definitely fouled on last shot..
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 26, 2023 16:14:51 GMT -5
I would imagine, Marcus would disagree. 😳🤣
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Post by hchoops on Mar 26, 2023 16:17:10 GMT -5
San Diego State v. FDU in the Final Four. Wow! SDSU player was definitely fouled on last shot.. But as Jay Wright said, that kind of contact , and worse, was not called all game. So it should not have been called then.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 26, 2023 16:19:00 GMT -5
Calhoun was pretty emotional. Built a program from almost nothing and won 3 national titles. Don’t have to like him or Hurley but they know how to win college basketball games. Calhoun was bad,to refs.Hurley may be worse. They both knew how to coach.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Mar 26, 2023 16:23:32 GMT -5
San Diego State v. FDU in the Final Four. Wow! SDSU player was definitely fouled on last shot.. But as Jay Wright said, that kind of contact , and worse, was not called all game. So it should not have been called then. The foul was so obvious and so impactful on the shot that it had to be called. I agree with Spanarkel; you can agree with Wright.
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Post by timholycross on Mar 26, 2023 17:37:48 GMT -5
Calhoun was pretty emotional. Built a program from almost nothing and won 3 national titles. Don’t have to like him or Hurley but they know how to win college basketball games. Calhoun was bad,to refs.Hurley may be worse. They both knew how to coach. Hurley was interviewed at the half. Said that looking back, his theatrics in the middle of the season probably messed his team up. If Texas wins, sets up one of those scenarios where everyone treats the Texas/UConn game as the final, not the semi.
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Post by gks on Mar 26, 2023 18:18:40 GMT -5
Calhoun was bad,to refs.Hurley may be worse. They both knew how to coach. Hurley was interviewed at the half. Said that looking back, his theatrics in the middle of the season probably messed his team up. If Texas wins, sets up one of those scenarios where everyone treats the Texas/UConn game as the final, not the semi. Ask Phi Slamma Jamma how that worked out in 1983.....
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Post by timholycross on Mar 26, 2023 18:49:35 GMT -5
Miami trying to pull a UConn and put both teams in the Final Four.
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Post by Tom on Mar 26, 2023 18:58:54 GMT -5
Back at the beginning, the talking heads were talking about how the Big XII and SEC dominated the NCAA this year. I don't see anyone from those conferences in the Final Four
Nice to see two teams from outside the P6 in the Final Four - and one guaranteed to make the final. Even if my brackets are a mess
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 26, 2023 19:06:12 GMT -5
I like the highlight play of the inbounding Miami player using the Austin Butler move and bouncing the ball off the Texas defender back to himself for the dunk..
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 27, 2023 15:01:49 GMT -5
Back at the beginning, the talking heads were talking about how the Big XII and SEC dominated the NCAA this year. I don't see anyone from those conferences in the Final Four Nice to see two teams from outside the P6 in the Final Four - and one guaranteed to make the final. Even if my brackets are a mess There is no one in the world with an intact bracket this year!
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Post by Tom on Mar 27, 2023 15:32:44 GMT -5
I don't think anyone has ever filled out a perfect bracket in those on line sites
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 27, 2023 17:37:59 GMT -5
I don't think anyone has ever filled out a perfect bracket in those on line sites Doesn’t Warren Buffett run an incentive program for employees which offers prizes for the winner and some huge sum of $$$ fir a perfect bracket? Of course the chances of a perfect bracket must be 1 in a trillion
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Post by hchoops on Mar 27, 2023 22:38:47 GMT -5
One of the semis pits 50 year old Dan Hurley from St. Anthony, Jersey City with 73 year old Jim Larranaga from Molloy in Queens. These are two storied HS teams with legendary coaches: Bob Hurley Sr. of St A and Jack Curran of Molloy
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Post by timholycross on Mar 28, 2023 7:23:17 GMT -5
One of the semis pits 50 year old Dan Hurley from St. Anthony, Jersey City with 73 year old Jim Larranaga from Molloy in Queens. These are two storied teams with legendary coaches: Bob Hurley Sr. of St A and Jack Curran of Molloy ...and it's also a battle of RI- former URI coach vs former Providence player.
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